Health Information Week 6th - 12th July 2020

Health Information Week is a national, multi-sector campaign promoting high-quality information for patients and the public. High quality health information can have a huge impact on people’s ability to stay healthy and manage illnesses effectively, giving them a better quality of life.

Sourcing reliable health information is important. The individual’s level of health literacy will also affect how they use or interpret the information they find.

For more information about Health Information week, please https://healthinfoweek.wixsite.com/healthinfoweek

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES  

For anyone interested in improving access to health information and the communication of information, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

• The knowledgeable patient : communication and participation in health : a Cochrane handbook / by Sophie Hill, 2011, Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell.
• Communication skills for doctors : a guide to effective communication with patients and families / by Peter. Maguire, 2000, London : Arnold.
• Fundamentals of health promotion for nurses / by Jane Wills, 2^nd edition, 2014, Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc.
• Effective communication skills for doctors : a practical guide to clear communication within a hospital environment / by Teresa Parrott Graham Crook, 2011, London: BPP Learning Media.
• Policy and practice in promoting public health / by Cathy E. Lloyd Stephen Handsley; Jenny Douglas; Sarah Earle; Sue Spurr, 2007, London: SAGE Publications.
• Health promotion in midwifery : principles and practice / by Jan Bowden; Vicky Manning, 3^rd edition, 2017, Boca Raton : CRC Press. Previous edition also available as an e-book.
• Skills for communicating with patients / by Jonathan Silverman; Suzanne M Kurtz; Juliet Draper, 3^rd edition, 2013, London : Radcliffe. E-book also available.
• Health promotion : throughout the life span / ed. by Carole Edelman and Elizabeth Connelly Kudzma, 9^th edition, 2018, St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier. Previous edition also available as an e-book.
• ABC of clinical communication / by Nicola Cooper & John Frain (ed.s), 3^rd edition, 2018, Hoboken, N.J : Wiley Blackwell.
• Communication skills in health and social care / Bernard Moss, 4^th edition, 2017, London : Sage Publications.

JOURNALS

• Perspectives in Health Information Management, American Health Information Management Association.  [Available as a NHS ejournal 2004 onwards].
• Journal of public health, Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press [Available in print 2004 – 2008. Also Available as a Keele ejournal 2004 onwards, & NHS e-journal 1996 onwards with 1 year embargo].
• Health information and libraries journal, Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2001 onwards & NHS ejournal 2001 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Patient Education & Counseling, Ireland : Elsevier Ireland Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2007 onwards].
• Patient education management, Atlanta, GA : American Health Consultants [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 – 2011 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2008 - 2011].
• Journal of medical Internet research, Toronto : JMIR Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2005 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Dean, Caress A.; Geneus, C. J.; Rice, S. et al., “Assessing the significance of health information seeking in chronic condition management”, Patient Education and Counseling, August 2017, Vol.100(8), pp.1519-1526. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Hernández-García, I.; Giménez-Júlvez, T., “Assessment of Health Information About COVID-19 Prevention on the Internet: Infodemiological Study”, JMIR public health and surveillance, 2020; 1^st April, Vol.6(2) : e18717. doi:10.2196/18717 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Jones, A. S. K. ; Kleinstäuber, M. ; Martin, L.R. et al, “Development and validation of the Health Visual Information Preference Scale”, British Journal of Health Psychology, 2019; Vol.24(3), pp.593-609. doi:10.1111/bjhp.12370 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Graffigna, G.; Barello, S.; Bonanomi, A.; Riva G., “Factors affecting patients' online health information-seeking behaviours: The role of the Patient Health Engagement (PHE) Model.” Patient Education and Counseling. 2017, Vol.100(10), pp. 1918-1927. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Nguyen A.D.; Frensham, L.J.; Baysari, M.T. et al., “Patients' use of mobile health applications: what general practitioners think”, Family Practice, 2019, Vol. 36(2), pp.214–218. [Available via Keele ejournals].
• Tan, S.S.; Goonawardene, N.; “Internet Health Information Seeking and the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Systematic Review.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2017 Vol.19(1):e9. Article: doi: 10.2196/jmir.5729. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Rowlands, G.; Protheroe, J.; Winkley, J. et al., “A mismatch between population health literacy and the complexity of health information: an observational study.”, British Journal of General Practice, 2015, Vol.65(635):e379-86. doi: 10.3399/bjgp15X685285. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Robbins, D.; Dunn, P.; “Digital health literacy in a person-centric world”, International Journal of Cardiology,  2019. Volume 290 (September), pp. 154-155. Epub ahead of print. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
• Stanarević Katavić, S., “Health information behaviour of rare disease patients: seeking, finding and sharing health information.”, Health information and libraries journal, 2019, Vol.36(4), pp:341-356. doi:10.1111/hir.12261. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

OTHER RESOURCES

On the UHNM  intranet - patient information leaflets

• UHNM have a range of patient information leaflets go to the ‘online’ section of the intranet and select the ‘Patient Information Library’.
• ‘Searching for Good Quality Health Information using the Internet’ patient information leaflet written by the Health Libraries is available in the Patient Information Library.

MPFT online self-help leaflets http://www.selfhelpguides.ntw.nhs.uk/mpft/SelfHelp

Combined Healthcare https://combined.nhs.uk/how-to-access-us-in-a-crisis/

NHS Website - www.nhs.uk

• Guide to searching on the NHS website https://kfh.libraryservices.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NHSuk-guide-for-LKS-Nov-2018.pdf

NICE guidance for Patients and Public - www.nice.org.uk

• This website can be searched for information about NICE guidelines: click on Evidence Services and then the Evidence Search function.
• When you have the results of your search, you can then select either of the filters ‘Information for patients’ or ‘Patient decision aids’. Both filters are listed under Evidence Type filters.
• Results of a search for information about patient Information leaflets see: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?q=patient+information+leaflets

Patient Info - https://patient.info/

Your Health Talk - www.healthtalk.org

• Here you can access information and videos to see and hear people's real life experiences of what it is really like to have a health condition. A wide range of conditions are included.

Public Libraries – ask the library staff for assistance with finding health information online.

Health Library subject Links pages:

• The library’s subject links pages cover a wide range of topics and areas of medicine, nursing and midwifery.
• The pages may include links to specific patient support organisations or other organisations that may offer assistance. Look for the ‘Patient Support’ tab within the subject links page.
• The ‘Patient Information’ subject links page is dedicated health information services or resources for patients, & resources which can be used by practitioners to aid patients with decision making.